Computers Experimental Converting a list of GPS locations (lat, long) to Australian state names October 24, 2021 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Recently, I had the fun experience of converting a CSV file that contained the names of a bunch of cities inside Australia. The CSV file contained four columns: City name Latitude (in DMS) Longitude (in DMS) There were more than 5,000 rows in the CSV file. I wanted to pull a list of all the […] Read more » csv Locations rlang
Apple Computers The best Apple dongle. Is it a Dell DA310? July 23, 2021 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment My attempts to get the perfect video out of an Apple MacBook to the Dell S2721QS finally is a success! It’s all thanks to Dell. I guess it makes sense. Dell makes the monitor, so I suppose having the Dell DA310 USB-C companion adapter is the right thing to do. That said, I did expect […] Read more » dell
Apple Computers Extracting Dell colour profiles on macOS without Windows July 19, 2021 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Dell is notorious for not really supporting Apple’s operating system very well. It’s not just their monitors, but other accessories like their USB-C docks. It’s a shame. I think that Dell has pretty high quality gear. I recently acquired a Dell S2721QS, and wanted to extract the files that are provided in their Windows driver […] Read more » dell
WordPress Creating a new WordPress admin account with only database access September 27, 2015 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Creating a new WordPress user when you don’t have access to WordPress but do have access to the hosting control panel is rather simple. Creating a new WordPress admin account can be done with the following MySQL query Click To Tweet Simply replace the strings in the first INSERT query that are wrapped around square […] Read more »
Random Thoughts Always take the shot September 27, 2015 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky Read more »
Linux RedHat Checking what processes need to be restarted after a system upgrade March 24, 2015 by Tim Groeneveld | 2 Comments on Checking what processes need to be restarted after a system upgrade With updates going on in the last couple of months for various packages, such as OpenSSL and GLibC which have fixed a number of important security vulnerabilities, I thought I might share a one liner that might save you one day. sudo lsof -n | grep -v \#prelink\# | grep -e '\.so' | grep -e […] Read more »
PHP Taylor Otwell on Laravel June 18, 2014 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I promised myself never to release Laravel until I had great documentation, and I never release a new version until the documentation is totally up to date. Any PHP programmer can pick up Laravel and start using it in a matter of minutes. The expressiveness of the code itself and the great documentation truly make coding enjoyable. http://taylorotwell.tumblr.com/post/21038245018/why-laravel Read more » Laravel PHP
Random Thoughts Google+: Please give us a write API June 10, 2014 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment It seems that Google has been on a relentless campaign to get Google+ to work. From only allowing YouTube users to comment with a Google+ account to their desperate attempts to integrate it into Google’s own search results (which seem to be all but gone now…) it all seems to be very pointless on Google’s […] Read more » API Google+
Linux PHP Using files or Semaphores for long running process locks with PHP June 3, 2014 by Tim Groeneveld | 2 Comments on Using files or Semaphores for long running process locks with PHP Last week I spoke at SydPHP, which was hilariously horrible due to my lack of public speaking skills. During my Introduction to Laravel & Composer there was a very interesting question posted asking about an issue that he came across while developing a cron that was running on his server. The process was set to […] Read more »
PHP Nagios plugin for checking the status of supervisord processes June 3, 2014 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment If you have never used it before, supervisor is an application that runs on your server to monitor a number of different applications. With supervisord, you get all of the benefits of turning long-running applications into daemons without all the extra code required to make that happen natively. The configuration for supervisord is extremely flexible, […] Read more » Linux supervisord